"Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper."

-- John Aubrey

#Distance Quotes #Men Quotes #Squares Quotes

“Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.”
“The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.”
“The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.”
“I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.”
“But if we see ourselves as connected to God, or as reconnecting to our Source through meditation, then we can attract anything we want into our lives.”
“If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?”
“Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.”
“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”

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